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Water Quality Monitoring in the Source Water Areas for NYC
PHASE I Monitoring Sites


Site 53 - Stone Hill River near Bedford Hills - CROSTONE - IMAGE Gallery
Watershed Characteristics - Nutrient Chemistry - Molecular Tracers - Macroinvertebrates


Watershed Land Use/Land Cover Characteristics - Data Methodology Description

Latitude(dd): 41.245949
Longitude(dd): -73.669116

Watershed Area: 90.58 km2




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East of Hudson Land Use/Cover Map
Impervious Agriculture Forest Water Wetland
7.01% 9.30% 81.40% 1.60%

9.10%

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1990
2000

Total Population

3020
3131
Population Density (ind./km2)
87.39
90.58
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2000
2001
2002
# of SPDES Dischargers
0
0
0
Total Annual Volume
(normalized for watershed area)
0.00 cm
0.00 cm
0.00 cm

Ions, Nutrients, DOC/BDOC, and Particulates - click here for abbreviations/units

Sampling Dates and Discharge (Q) - Realtime Flow Monitoring
 
Ions/Nutr & DOC/BDOC
Organic Particles
Date
Q - m3/s
Date
Q - m3/s
2000
12SEP00
0.0579
12SEP00
0.0579
2001
05SEP01
0.0325
05SEP01
0.0325
2002
14AUG02

0.0318

14AUG02
0.0318

Data Table - Methodology
  2000 QUAL 2001 QUAL 2002 QUAL
pH 8.2   8.2   7.7  
ALKL 70   72   76  
COND 277   306   310  
CA 26   .   .  
MG 8   8.5   9.3  
NA 15   18   16  
K 2   2.4   2.7  
CL 34   41   38  
SO4 13   16   14  
NH4N 0.007 B 0.003 B 0.006 B
NO3N 0.4   0.4   0.6  
ORGN 0.1   0.2   0.2  
SKN 0.1   0.2   0.2  
TKN 0.2   0.2   0.2  
SRP 0.012   0.015   0.019  
TDP 0.016   0.017   0.019  
TP 0.05   0.02   0.02  
DOC 2363   3397   1947  
BDOC .   249   161  
TSS 0.7 B 1 B 1.9  
TSS05 0.4 B 0.7   0.9  
TSS10 0.06 B 0.3   0.2  
TSS20 0.2   0.5   0.5  
VSS 0.2 B 0.4   0.9  
VSS05 0.1 B 0.3 B 0.5  
VSS10 0.011 B 0.1   0.08  
VSS20 0.07   0.2   0.2  

 

Molecular Tracer Analysis - click here for abbreviations/units

Sampling Dates and Discharges (Q) - Realtime Flow Monitoring
 
Summer Baseflow
Winter Baseflow
Date
Q - m3/s
Date
Q - m3/s
2000
12SEP00
0.0579
2001
05SEP01
0.0325
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2002
12AUG02
0.0248
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2003    
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Data Table - Methodology
  2000(SB) QUAL 2001(WB) QUAL 2001(SB) QUAL 2002(WB) QUAL 2002(SB) QUAL 2003(WB) QUAL
FLU 0.0011 HE .   0.0007 E .   0.0013 E .  
PHE 0.004 HE .   0.003 E .   0.003 E .  
ANT 0.004 HE .   0.0009 E .   0.0007 E .  
2MP 0.002 HE .   0.011 E .   0.012 E .  
1MP 0.0006   .   0.004 E .   0.007 E .  
FLR 0.003 HE .   0.006 E .   0.01 E .  
PYR 0.003   .   0.03 E .   0.05   .  
BAA 0.00018 HE .   0.0017 E .   0.001 E .  
CHR 0.0004 HE .   0.0011 E .   0.0013 E .  
BBF 0.0002 HE .   0.0012 E .   0.0012 E .  
BKF 0.0003 HE .   0.0008 E .   0.0005 E .  
BAP 0.0013 HE .   0.001 E .   0.0011 E .  
HHCB 0.003 HE .   0.003 E .   0.002 E .  
AHTN 0.0006 HE .   0.004 E .   0.006 E .  
CAF 0.003   .   0.003 E .   0.007 E .  
bCOP 0.008   .   0.009 E .   0.009 E .  
EPI 0.008   .   0.0019 E .   0.003 E .  
CHO 0.3   .   0.4   .   0.3   .  
aCOP 0.06   .   0.06   .   0.06   .  
aONE 0.006   .   0.017   .   0.008 E .  
bONE 0.03 HE .   0.014   .   0.02 E .  
SNOL 0.05 HE .   0.05   .   0.05   .  

 

Benthic Macroinvertebrates - Methodology

Water Quality Score - WQS Definition



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